Formula 1 The F1 jibber jabber thread.

[Embattle]

How is Pastor Maldonado an F1 driver.

 

[ECA]

$50m/year helps a lot. The hilarious part is he paid $28m to leave williams to go to lotus, what a twat.

 

[kirennia]

Saw him calling it a strange accident... basically pointing toward it being a car failure. He just made a mistake through turn two and didn't back off an appropriate amount through turn three to compensate which is just...

If it wasn't for his money... /sigh.

 

[caLLous]

Well he's starting from the back of the grid in a car that belongs in 5th or 6th so if he gets away without causing an accident or crashing out all by himself I will be amazed.

 

[ECA]

Mercedes pitstops cost lewis 1.6s compared to rosberg, made it way closer than it should've been

 

[Bahumat]

Really enjoyed that one. Was great to see Vettel catching rai/alo/bot

Also LOL Mercedes almost overtook everyone!

 

[caLLous]

Bit suss from Rosberg there! It looked totally normal the first time round but he was doing some weird things with the steering wheel...

 

[Embattle]

Well I've not seen it but did read he reversed back on to the track, which really is very questionable.

 

[caLLous]

The conspiracy theory is that he deliberately had an "accident" which caused a yellow flag (and then deliberately reversed onto the track, which kept the yellow flag waving) which prevented Lewis from improving his time. The stewards are investigating it. Should be interesting.

The more I look at it, the more cunty Rosberg looks tbh.

 

[Moriath]

He should have sat there in the slip road. Didn't realise he reversed back during live quali.

 

[ECA]

Oh I thought he stayed down there. Reversing out is really cunty.

 

[caLLous]

No penalty for Rosberg. Turn 1 should be interesting tomorrow!

 

[Embattle]

It certainly will be, see how determined Hamilton is to win.

 

[caLLous]

Be calm, Lewis...

 

[old.user4556]

He's a little bitch

 

[caLLous]

He did better in that interview than I thought he would.

"Fortunately we didn't make any mistakes." Was that a little dig he slid in there at the end?

 

[Embattle]

Although as per normal the track is as boring as ever when it comes to overtaking, hence I'm fine with it remaining on SKY.

 

[old.user4556]

I try so damn hard to like F1, but I only enjoy the first 10 laps and the last 10 laps.

 

[DaGaffer]

I try so damn hard to like F1, but I only enjoy the first 10 laps and the last 10 laps.

[whisper]everyone feels the same way[/whisper]

 

[caLLous]

Fucking hell, what a first lap from Lewis! Also tehehe Vettel.

 

[gunner440]

Great to see an African-American driver making it in Formula 1

 

[caLLous]

New rules for 2015. Standing start restarts after a safety car is deployed? What the fuck is that about?

 

[ECA]

It's bullshit "spectacle" nonsense, to try and up viewing figures.

Or they could stop being myopic, get it on free TV instead of paid channels, and stream+upload the whole race on youtube with an english broadcast. I mean that's almost logical. Or we can blame "the spectacle" and add more sparks, stupid shit like standing restarts and add megaphone exhausts.

 

[Embattle]

Oh dear Hamilton

 

[ECA]

 

[Raven]

They keep trying to come up with stupid ideas to try and make it more interesting but its just going backwards. Un-restrict the teams would be a good start in making it interesting. Maybe the top teams have to give their tech to the bottom teams after each season or something.

 

[Raven]

Woot, facepalm snipe. You go girl.

 

[Raven]

Anyway, could have had paddock tickets for tomorrow from my bro inlaw who works for an F1 team but my cow of a sister wants to go, she hates F1.

 

[caLLous]

It's just, that post was possibly the dumbest thing I've read so far today. And I've read quite a few of Job's contributions. :\

Unrestricting the teams would be an awful idea on so many levels. Putting all the drivers in the same car with the same engine would be a possible way forward but the teams/manufacturers would (obviously) never agree to that.

 

[Raven]

No, putting them all in the same car would be boring as fuck, which is exactly what they are trying to do now. Having the teams develop actual competitive cars without all the bullshit restrictions (baring safety restrictions ofc) would actually make it interesting. The season after, the tech becomes available for all, meaning the rich teams have to up their game again. Eventually you would end up with near parity but have teams squeezing every last drop of performance out of the car. Essentially the rich teams would support the not so rich.

Rather than having to meet bullshit emissions targets they should be allowed to go for pure performance, save the tree hugging for Formula E or whatever the fuck its called. Its not like F1 makes any difference in the greater scheme of things.